The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Summary and Conclusions
ignored by the Western media), and it provided a cover for their already
planned removal of several hundred thousand Serbs from the Krajina
area in Croatia. In “Operation Flash,” carried out in Western Slavonia
in May 1995, the Croatians did not provide safe passage for a huge column
of Serb refugees, which included many women and children.
“Many Serbs perished in heavy Croatian tank, artillery and aerial bombardments…as
they tried to flee southward toward the Sava River
bridge into Bosnia,” the New York Times‘s Roger Cohen reported, and
the “estimate of 450 Serbian dead, given by Gojko Susak, the Croatian
Defense Minister appears to be conservative.” 32
The follow-up massive ethnic cleansing operation by Croatia in Krajina
was carried out with U.S. approval and logistical support within a
month of the Srebrenica events, and it may well have involved the
killing of more Serb civilians than Bosnian Muslim civilians killed in the
Srebrenica area in July. Most of the Bosnian Muslim victims were fighters,
not civilians, as the Bosnian Serbs bused the Srebrenica women and
children to safety. But here as in Western Slavonia the Croatians made
no such provision and many women, children and old people were
slaughtered in Krajina. The ruthlessness of the Croats was impressive:
“UN troops watched horrified as Croat soldiers dragged the bodies of
dead Serbs along the road outside the UN compound and then pumped
them full of rounds from the AK-47s. They then crushed the bulletridden
bodies under the tracks of a tank.” 33 But this was hardly noticed
in the wake of the indignation and propaganda generated around Srebrenica,
with the aid of the mainstream media, whose co-belligerency
role in the Balkan wars was already well-entrenched.
14. The ICTY and UN also had an important role to play in the consolidation
of the standard Srebrenica massacre narrative. From its inception,
the ICTY served as an arm of the NATO powers, who created
it, funded it, served as its police arm and main information source, and
expected and got responsive service from the organization. The ICTY
focused intensively on Srebrenica and provided important and nominally
independent corroboration of the massacre claims along with
citable “judicial” claims of planned “genocide.” Although the combined
death toll in Operations Flash and Storm is believed to be in the thousands,
in contrast with its treatment of Srebrenica, but in keeping with
its role as a political instrument of NATO, the ICTY has never issued
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